Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Souterrain
Banagher, County Galway, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Banagher
- County
- Galway
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Souterrain
- Coordinates
- 53.60748, -8.90347
- SMR number
- GA016-006002-
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1753 "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Some 10m NW of a ringfort (GA016-006----), within an associated 'annexe'. According to Costello (1902b, 110), this souterrain consisted of 'two chambers connected by a narrow doorway without a passage'. Present remains consist of a blocked-up chamber, running E-W, indicated by a slight depression (L 2.6m) in the ground surface. Circa 7m to W, lies a 2nd chamber (L c. 4m), running N-S. Though inaccessible, a view through a displaced lintel indicates that it is of drystone construction and similar to the souterrain (GA016-006001-) within the interior of the ringfort. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 448).
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
Nearby in the register
- Souterrainunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Field boundaryunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.